This is the Blog site for QISMA. She is a 59 foot narrowboat launched in July 2010 as a liveaboard, for Jan, Alistair and Little Josh. After almost six years cruising the canals and rivers of England and Wales we started a new adventure. The boat was taken to Ireland where we plan to stay for...............

Friday, 12 September 2014

We wondered why .....

I am of course paraphrasing the marvellous Mr Curtis Stigers ...

Yesterday we made it onto new waters. The River Wissey. I went into a Tweet frenzy as we went down. The guide says turn onto lake .... Stunning!

A hazard at the first bridge but thegn moved very quickly to let us through and were all so cheerfu

And then three lots of lovely GOBA moorings ahead.... More of these later. We'd heard that there was a building site next to the moorings at Hilgay so weren't disappointed to find they looked less than attractive. On we went.

The next feature is the infamous sugar beet factory. It is HUGE

And then ... Instructions are .. Turn left onto the lake .....

And it went on and on .....

The end of the navigation, for us, is just past the last mooring opportunity at a caravan park. We had already decided NFU .. not for us as we went past.

And ready to turn

So, what had we wondered... We had wondered why so many boaters went up and down the Wissey and now we know why. The lack of mooring opportunities.
We stopped at Hilgay for a quick run to the butcher/store and we carried on to the fab GOBA moorings we passed early on. Still empty. HOORAH.

Not 20 minutes after we moored another boat pitched up and ... Of course .... Ignored ALL the empty moorings and moored 3 feet from our bow ...